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Urine-powered combat equipment?
Fox News ^ | October 18, 2017 | Allison Barrie

Posted on 10/19/2017 3:03:28 PM PDT by yoe

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Oct. 19, 2017 - 3:54 - Fox Firepower: Allison Barrie with a look at how Army scientists are extracting Hydrogen from urine and using it to power fuel cells. Something that could be a great advantage to military personnel.

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This must come under the heading of "Military Equipment".
1 posted on 10/19/2017 3:03:28 PM PDT by yoe
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2 posted on 10/19/2017 3:05:10 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: yoe

Antifa has already weaponized urine.


3 posted on 10/19/2017 3:05:43 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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I hate to ask, how does the urine get delivered to where it needs to go?


4 posted on 10/19/2017 3:05:47 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Just like (black)powder manufacturers had previously been extracting nitre from urine for the purpose of making gun powder.

ya’ll let me know when you can extract pure lead from pee.

I prefer to cast my own bullets, when possible. :^)


5 posted on 10/19/2017 3:06:19 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: yoe

When the Laboratory and the Lavatory are in the same room.


6 posted on 10/19/2017 3:09:05 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: yoe

If you’re reduced to that, urine a lot of trouble.


7 posted on 10/19/2017 3:09:28 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Most soldiers have a built-in delivery hose.


8 posted on 10/19/2017 3:10:22 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: yoe

A silly fad. The salinity and other properties of urine vary widely and is far too variable to be a serious piece of reliable military equipment, when a sensible solution is to simply have the required few hundred milligrams of pre-measured salts built-in to unit, and mix on the field with gosh, let’s see... water.


9 posted on 10/19/2017 3:11:45 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: yoe

Always a short a batteries, out in the field.


10 posted on 10/19/2017 3:12:06 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: SpaceBar

Wasn’t urine used in some gas masks in WWI?


11 posted on 10/19/2017 3:16:41 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: lee martell

IF they refine the process then perhaps they’ll be some practical applications at wastewater treatment plants.


12 posted on 10/19/2017 3:20:34 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: yoe

Will a commander’s order to ‘move out’ become ‘piss off?’


13 posted on 10/19/2017 3:25:44 PM PDT by posterchild ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - R. Feynman)
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To: hanamizu

Yes they did, but we aren’t talking about what essentially amounts to a moist towel to cover your face here. The compliment to comparison is contrast. Burning tree sap was once used to sink ships, but times change.


14 posted on 10/19/2017 3:25:48 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: yoe

Military engineering for worst case scenarios is hardly new. The soviets had a troop transport vehicle during the cold war capable of operating on extremely poor quality fuel, even vodka.


15 posted on 10/19/2017 3:39:56 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: yoe

MFCs (microbial fuel cells) may be a better technology:

https://www.livescience.com/54588-pee-powered-fuel-cells-cheap-electricity.html


16 posted on 10/19/2017 3:41:25 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

...but AntiFa stole that from Raider Nation.


17 posted on 10/19/2017 3:44:30 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They call upon Lance Corporal I.P. Freely.


18 posted on 10/19/2017 3:46:32 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Yeah there’s a history, going way back to when chimps learned to fling poo.


19 posted on 10/19/2017 3:46:42 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
I thought that was the ancient Chinese:

Spots on the Wall by Hu Flung Pu

20 posted on 10/19/2017 3:52:53 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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